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| Title |
Gender and social geography: Impact on Lady Health Workers Mobility in Pakistan
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-360 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Zubia Mumtaz |
| Abstract |
In Pakistan, where gendered norms restrict women's mobility, female community health workers (CHWs) provide doorstep primary health services to home-bound women. The program has not achieved optimal functioning. One reason, I argue, may be that the CHWs are unable to make home visits because they have to operate within the same gender system that necessitated their appointment in the first place. Ethnographic research shows that women's mobility in Pakistan is determined not so much by physical geography as by social geography (the analysis of social phenomena in space). Irrespective of physical location, the presence of biradaria members (extended family) creates a socially acceptable 'inside space' to which women are limited. The presence of a non-biradari person, especially a man, transforms any space into an 'outside space', forbidden space. This study aims to understand how these cultural norms affect CHWs' home-visit rates and the quality of services delivered. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 91 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 88 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 20% |
| Researcher | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 21 | 23% |
| Unknown | 18 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 31% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 12% |
| Unspecified | 4 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 12% |
| Unknown | 21 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 May 2013.
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#12,759,811
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#4,199
of 7,593 outputs
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#89,501
of 174,282 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#55
of 107 outputs
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